Lior Silberman's Teaching Page

Why we do this

Philosophy is written in that great book (I mean the universe) ... but the book
cannot be understood unless one first learns the language and the symbols in
which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical
language ... without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word
of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

— Galileo Galilei, The Assayer, 1623.

... the new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a
means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression, more exact,
compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great body of physical
science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless
social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to
those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time
may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation
as an efficient citizen ... it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think
in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

Princeton

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